Krishna Agarwal

Professor,

Department of Physics & Technology

UiT The Arctic University of Norway

Krishna Agarwal(OSA Senior Member, URSI Senior Member) received her Ph.D from National University of Singapore in the year 2011 and B.Tech. degree from the Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines), Dhanbad, India, in 2003. She has received the "Distinguished Alumnus Award" from Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines), Dhanbad India for the year 2020. She was awarded the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Individual Fellowship for the year 2017-2019 and is currently a Professor at UiT The Arctic University of Norway. She was awarded the "Young Scientist Award" by Union Radio Scientifique Internationale (URSI) in the year 2011. She was a post-doctoral associate at Singapore-MIT Alliance research & Technology Centre since 2014 to 2016. She was a research fellow at National University of Singapore from 2010 to 2014. She was a Scientist at the Defence Research and Development Organization, India, from 2003 to 2006 and worked towards the development of the front end of the active phased array radars. Her current research interests are computational nanoscopy, super-resolution imaging, and inverse problems.

My research group page - https://www.3dnanoscopy.com/ ( http://3dnanoscopy.uit.no )

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News:

      • Promoted as Professor by Norwegian National Assessment Committee

      • Selected for Senior Membership by URSI (Union Radio-Scientifique Internationale)

      • "Distinguished Alumnus Award 2020" under young achiever category from IIT(ISM), Dhanbad, India

      • Horizon 2020 FETOPEN Grant 2020 (PI, ~3.7 million Euro, 2021-2025) successful

      • 2 IEEE Transactions on Computational Imaging paper accepted

      • 2 Optics Express paper accepted

      • CVPR 2020 paper accepted

      • MusiJ paper accepted at Biomedical Optics Express

      • Thematic Grant 2020 Successful(Co-PI, ~3 million Euro, 2020-2023)

      • 2 patents filed on MUSICAL

      • Patent granted on structured illumination microscopy

      • Looking for 1 Postdocs on microscopy (if interested email: Krishna.agarwal@uit.no)

      • Looking for 1 Ph.D Student on microscopy and electromagnetics (if interested email: Krishna.agarwal@uit.no)

Research Grants:

  • Horizon 2020 FETOPEN-RIA Grant 2020 (PI, ~3.7 million Euro, 2021-2025)

  • Thematic Grant 2020 (Co-PI, 30 Million NOK, 2020-2023)

  • RCN Young researcher grant FRIPRO-FRINATEK(PI, NOK 8million, 2019-2023)

  • RCN research grant Nano2021 (Co-PI, NOK 10 million, 2019-2023)

  • ERC Starting Grant 2018 (PI Euro 1.5 million, 2019-2024)

  • RCN research grant Biotek 2018 (Co-PI, NOK 8 million, 2019-2021)

Other Achievements:

·Awarded "Distinguished Alumnus Award" for the year 2020 from Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines) Dhanbad, India under young achiever category.

·AURORA Outstanding Fellow by Tromso Research Foundation & UiT The Arctic University of Norway

·Awarded Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Individual Fellowship 2017-2019 .

·Selected for Digital Life Excellence by Centre for Digital Life Norway.

·"Best Presentation Award" in the SMART BioSym Annual Workshop 2015.

·Received "Young Scientist Award" from Union Radio Scientifique Internationale (URSI) at XXX General Assembly and Scientific Symposium of the International Union of Radio Science, 2011.

·Received "President Graduate Fellowship Award" from National University of Singapore, during 2008 - 2010.

·Received "NUS Research Scholarship" from National University of Singapore, during 2006 - 2008.

·Received "Best Student Award" from Indian Institute of Technology(ISM), Dhanbad, India, 2003.

Professional Activities:

    • Workshop organizer "Next Generation Live-cell microscopy 2020"

    • Course co-ordinator & instructor - Fluctuations based fluorescence nanoscopy (FYS-3810)

    • Co-lecturer, Optical Nanoscopy (Course FYS-3029), UiT-The Arctic University of Norway, Tromso, Norway, 2017.

    • Session Chair and Jury member, Best Student Paper Award for PIERS 2017, Singapore.

    • Organizing Special Session at PIERS 2017, Singapore on "Imaging and Super-resolution Techniques for Biomedical Imaging Problems".

    • Co-lecturer, Electromagnetics & Applications (Course 30.102), Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore, 2016.

    • Co-coordinator for "2015 Bootcamp: Integrative Approach to Understand Cell Functions" 27th July-6th August 2015, Co-organized by MBI,DBS,SMART.

    • Invited for School Outreach at CHIJ School, Singapore.

    • Reviewer for journals - IEEE TMTT, IEEE TAP, IEEE TGRS, IEEE GRSL, IEEE AWPL, Optics Express, Optics Letters, PIER, JEMWA, RFMiCAE.

    • Conference reviewer - IMWS-Bio 2013, IMWS-AMP 2015, IMWS-Bio 2015.

    • Poster Chair for IMWS-Bio 2013.

    • Session chair for IMWS-Bio 2015.

My current staff & students:

Project co-ordinator - Shivani Bhardwaj

Research Staff -

Daniel H. Hansen (Engineer)

Ankit Butola (Post-doc)

Biswajoy Ghosh (Post-doc)

Ida S. Opstad (Post-doc)

Ph.D Students

Sebastian Acuna

Master Student:

Past Master/Ph.d/postdoc/mentored students

Arif Ahmed (Asst. Prof, XIM, India)

Zicheng Liu (Post-doc)

Ida S. Opstad (Post-doc, UiT)

Jon-Richard Sommernes(PhD student, UiT)

Chen Rui (Assoc. Prof., Sun Yat-Sen University, China)

Ye Xiuzhu (Assoc. Prof., Beijing Institute of Technology, China)

Lu TianJian (Google)

Kenneth Lim Mingjie (Google)

Gary Lee (Ph.D Student, MIT)